Originally Posted by
sin0822
as far as gigabyte pushing more current goes, dynamic current step is 100 amps from 45 to 1.45 just fro the cores, then you have 35 more amps for uncore, well that comes to a whopping 180 amps, after the dynamic current step the voltage droops, these numbers are from VRD 11.1 spec which define vdroop and well it explains how lower voltage and higher current is how these chips were designed. Of course gigabyte probably runs out of spec, right... I have never seen those marks on my cpus nor anyone else.